Let's get this straight. When Biden called Obama 'clean', it had nothing to do with personal hygiene. Biden is a political animal on the cellular level--the Democrats' John McCain. Without media exposure, he would expire.
What he was saying is that, in his visceral view, Obama is the first black presidential candidate who is politically 'clean'--i.e., they haven't got anything personal to use against him--yet. Like when the movie suspect is frisked and no weapon is found--he's 'clean'.
Al Sharpton had Tawana Brawley. Carol Mosely Braun had her campaign contribution scandals. Shirley Chisholm once stunned her contemporaries by voting for Hale Boggs instead of John Conyers as House Majority Leader. Jesse Jackson had financial improprieties at Operation Push (never made public).
But when it was misconstrued, and it was time to apologize, Biden could hardly come out and explain the context of his adjective, could he? "What I was really trying to say is that all those other black candidates were 'dirty', see?..."
diderot
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